Amanda D. Lotz is an American-Australian educator, television scholar, and media scholar based in Australia since 2019. She is known for her research in television studies, digital disruption, the economics of television and media companies, and also popularizing the terms network era, post-network era, and the multi-channel transition describing the television industry's transition to cable and to internet video distribution.[1]
Amanda Lotz | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Research in Media Industries, Disruption of Television, The Future of Television, Economics of Television, Net Neutrality, Television Studies and Gender and the Media |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | DePauw University (B.A., 1996) Indiana University (M.A., 1997) University of Texas (Ph.D., 2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Horace Newcomb |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Television studies; media studies; Media Industries; Future of Television; Media economics |
| Institutions | Queensland University of Technology, University of Michigan, Denison University, Washington University in St. Louis |
Lotz is Professor at Queensland University of Technology and program leader of the Transforming Media Industries research program in QUT's Digital Media Research Centre. Prior to joining QUT, she was a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, an assistant professor at Denison University and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.
Her area of research focuses on the intersection of media business and media culture, which she has developed through detailed examination of and by developing (with Tim Havens) a framework for investigating media industries. Her work also spans the economics of the television/cable industry, broadband distributed media, television studies, and gender and the media.
She holds a B.A. in communication from DePauw University, an M.A. in Telecommunication from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Radio, Television and Film from University of Texas.[2]
Lotz co-hosted the Media Business Matters Podcast, which focuses on recent stories in media and why they matter from 2016 to 2018.[3] She was a Fellow at the Peabody Media Center and was named as a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2020.
Publications edit
Lotz has authored, co-authored or edited twelve books in addition to many refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference presentations.[4][5]
Lotz is the author of:
- Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-funded Video on Demand (Polity, 2022)
- Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals and Streaming Wars (MIT Press, 2021).
- We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All (MIT Press, 2018).
- Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 2017).
- Cable Guys: Television and American Masculinities in the 21st Century (New York University Press, 2014)
- The Television Will Be Revolutionized (New York University Press, 2007) A revised, second edition was published in 2014.
- Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era (University of Illinois Press, 2006)
Lotz is the co-author of:
- Media Industry Studies(with Daniel Herbert and Aswin Punathambekar, Polity, 2020)
- Understanding Media Industries (with Timothy Havens, Oxford University Press, 2011). A revised, second edition was published in 2016.
- Television Studies (with Jonathan Gray, Polity, 2011).
And editor of:
- Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders (co-edited with Ramon Lobato) (New York University Press, 2023)
- Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era (Routledge, 2009)
Awards and honors edit
- International Communication Association Fellow [6]
- Peabody Fellow Scholar [7]
- Faculty Fellow National Association of Television Program Executives[8]
- Faculty Development Grant National Association of Television Program Executives
- Coltrin Professor of the Year, International Radio and Television Society[9]
- Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Faculty Seminar
- Phi Beta Kappa (DePauw University)
References edit
- ^ "Home". amandalotz.com.
- ^ "Amanda Lotz's University of Michigan web page". Archived from the original on 2013-01-12. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
- ^ "Media Business Matters Podcast". Amanda D. Lotz. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ "Amanda Lotz's Amazon Books listing". Amazon. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
- ^ "Google Scholar Reference of Amanda Lotz". Retrieved 2013-02-05.
- ^ "DMRC academics 'virtually' honoured at media conference". 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Peabody launches Media Center". 16 November 2016.
- ^ "Amanda Lotz's University of Michigan web page". Archived from the original on 2013-01-12. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
- ^ "Depauw University News Archive". Retrieved 2013-01-14.